Although the unemployment rate in Colombia in the month of September showed a slight decline compared to the same month last year (9.1%), Women continue to be the most affected in labor matters.
And it is that some 68,000 entered the list of unemployed in that ninth month of the current year, while 175,000 men found employment in said month.which contributed to increasing the employment gap by one percentage point in that last year, which went from 3.6 to 4.6 percentage points, according to Dane in its most recent monthly survey.
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This difference is even slightly higher than that registered in September 2022, when it was 4.5 percentage points, It is observed in the report of the statistical entity, which shows how since September 2022, the year of the pandemic, when the gap reached 7.9 percentage pointsthis had been falling until now.
In 2022 the unemployment rate for men was 9%, while the unemployment rate for women was 14.3%.
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Of the 13 activities that Dane monitors in labor matters, seven reported drops in job creation in September of the current year. In total, there were close to 410 places, compared to the close to 500 generated by the other six branches..
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Manufacturing and information and telecommunications industries were the ones that lost the most female labor that month, 64,000 and 59,000 jobs, respectively. In eight of the 13 activities, the total number of jobs lost by women totaled 264,000, which were offset by those generated by the remaining five branches, some 196,000 in that month of the year.
Regarding this, Jackeline Piraján, economist at Scotiabank Colpatriasaid: “We see that the destinations of these people who are no longer looking for work are directed towards household chores or study, but with more preponderance towards household chores, while for men it is seen that they are going to other types of activities. not so well specified. It’s a good fact; However, we must look at whether it is sustainable over time or not.“.
Employment in women
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In fact, The Dane revealed that in September the unemployment rate in the country was 9.1%, representing a slight decrease of 0.6 pp compared to the figure of 9.7% in August and 0.2 points compared to the same period of the previous year, when it was 9.3% annually.
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According to what was revealed by the director of the entity, Piedad Urdinola, the national unemployment rate for the ninth month of this year is one of the lowest in the last eight years for this month. So things are, In the case of women, the unemployment rate at the national level was 11.8%, while in the case of men it was 7.2%, with a gender gap of 4.6 pp..
The report reveals that the unemployed population nationwide registered a decrease of 22,000 people in September, compared to the same month in 2023.. The decrease occurred in populated and dispersed rural centers with a percentage variation of -17.3%, in 13 cities and metropolitan areas with -4.3% and the national total with -1.0%.
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*With information from EL TIEMPO – ECONOMÍA
